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Taxon:  Abies concolor (Gordon & Glend.) Lindl. ex Hildebr.



Summary
Genus:
Abies
Section:
Grandis
Family:
Pinaceae
Nomen number:
649
Place of publication:
Verh. Naturhist. Vereines Preuss. Rheinl. Westphalens 18:261. 1861
Verified:
05/05/1992 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Picea concolor Gordon & Glend.

Autonym(s)
Abies concolor (Gordon & Glend.) Lindl. ex Hildebr. f. concolor
Abies concolor (Gordon & Glend.) Lindl. ex Hildebr. var. concolor

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Abies concolor (Gordon & Glend.) Lindl. ex Hildebr. f. violacea (A. Murray bis) Beissn.
Abies concolor (Gordon & Glend.) Lindl. ex Hildebr. f. wattezii (Beissn.) Rehder
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Reference(s)
  1. Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
  2. Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature
  3. Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
  4. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
  5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  6. Fowells, H. A. 1965. Silvics of forest trees of the United States.
  7. Gilamn, E. F. & D. G. Watson. 1993. Abies concolor: white fir. 1-4. Note: re. Christmas tree use
  8. International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
  9. Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States
  10. Personal Care Products Council. INCI
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Common names
English
Colorado fir –
Colorado white fir –
silver fir –
white fir –
German
Grautanne –
Italian
abete concolore –
Spanish
pino real blanco –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorthern MexicoMexicoBajan.w.
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorthern MexicoMexicoSonora 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorthwestern U.S.A.United StatesColorado 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorthwestern U.S.A.United StatesIdaho 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorthwestern U.S.A.United StatesOregon 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouth-Central U.S.A.United StatesNew Mexico 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthwestern U.S.A.United StatesArizona 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthwestern U.S.A.United StatesCalifornia 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthwestern U.S.A.United StatesNevada 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthwestern U.S.A.United StatesUtah 
2Cultivated    also cult.
Native
Northern America
  • NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Oregon]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico]
  • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah]
  • NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Baja (n.w.), Sonora]
Cultivated (also cult.)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalornamental Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States
MaterialswoodplywoodLittle, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States
Socialreligious/secularused as a Christmas tree fide http://hort.ufl.edu/trees/ABICONA.pdf,Gilamn, E. F. & D. G. Watson. 1993. Abies concolor: white fir. 1-4. Note: re. Christmas tree use
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=649. Accessed 2 May 2025.